Another custom builder just popped up on our radar, it’s REDZ Motorcycle Company over in The Netherlands. Remember Bratstyle? Well REDZ builds custom bikes along those lines, based on the Yamaha SR400/SR500/TW200, the Kawasaki W400/W650 and other small displacement Japanese bikes. They also offer all of the parts you might need to put one of [...]
From the monthly archives:
October 2008
Most of you are familiar with the Ridley line of automatic shift motorcycles. They’re a slightly smaller dimensioned bike built with a cruiser look. Oberdan Bezzi was wondering if it might be time for something a little more sport oriented.
These designs have a semi street tracker look and could bring a rider looking for a [...]
Not too many folks (other than real Buell fans) know that Erik Buell worked on a bicycle project with Schwinn Bicycles back in 1991. Chris Fiorini, a product designer at Schwinn’s Paramount Design Group, wanted to design a mountain bike for downhill racing with long travel suspension. He contacted Buell because he had heard about [...]
Peter Koren, a Ducati enthusiast from the UK, found a 1978 Ducati 900GTS as a parts bike for his 750GT and 900SS. Looking a bit more at the old GTS, it wasn’t as bad as he thought so instead of using the pieces he figured, “Why not fix it up?” It was past the restoration [...]
Ducati has something hidden in their back room. If you go to ducati.com there’s an intro screen that brings up the visual shown above. It seems a Ducati streetfighter will be introduced November 3rd. I wonder if it will make it that far before it leaks to the web. I have no other info but [...]
Are you one of those guys who feels there’s just no substitute for cubic inches? Well, Bill Price thought you might like to know he’s designing an engine for you, it’s called the Bad Dog 215, as in 215 cubic inches. The sixty-degree air-and-oil-cooled 4-valve DOHC semi-unit 3500cc engine has a 6 inch bore and [...]
The Moto Engineering Foundation (MEF) has started the MotoStudent competition in Spain aimed at university students, where their goal is to design and build motorcycles leading to a competition against students from Spanish and other European universities and eventually worldwide. The students will use their engineering skills to build motorcycles under the real restrictions of [...]
A little over a year ago, Electric Motorsport gutted a Yamaha R1 and filled it with batteries and an electric motor. It looked a bit rough but it worked pretty well. They evidently learned quite a bit from that project because they’ve introduced the GPR-S, a lithium battery powered model that looks like a finished [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
